Dancer and Choreographer, Lapree Lala (centre), Karen Aguiar (blue top), singer AIS and dancers Vithoria Escobar, Eloy Quezada, South Side Moves, Ethereal Danza, World Fusion Crew and more GDFC collaborators at rehearsals for

Breaking Codes - Culture night ireland 2022. Photo: Leon Farrell

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Go Dance for Change Go Dance for Change is an intercultural collaborative platform producing social spaces that use dance as a primary tool to connect people.

We connect people with communities and organisations and create opportunities for meaningful intercultural celebration and interaction through dance. Through a variety of immersive and engaging dance-related activities such as workshops, parades, performances and events, we facilitate the sharing of culture, as well as health promotion and integration.

The platform started in 2018 focusing on rhythms originating in Africa and from the African diaspora in the Americas, and has always placed a strong emphasis on wellbeing, community building, education and empowerment. Its aim is to highlight diverse cultures and people thus decolonising the narratives within the dance scene in Ireland and create a space for creatives to thrive.

Proudly collaborating with South Side Moves, World Fusion Crew, Ethereal Danza, Kwetu Movement, Top8 Street Dance Battle, Black Canvas curations, Uma Fam, Afrovibeee, other projects, events and crews as well as dance enthusiasts and artists: Alessandra Azevedo, Angela Didek, Alicia Raye, AIS, Bami Kuteyi, Bonnie Boux, CelaviedMai, Dine Kandiwa, Eloy Quezada, Favour Odusola, Jay Asolo, Jorge Luis, Kareen Salcede, Kate O’Shea, Lapree Ncube, Lucille Aires, Patricia Guimarães, Sabrina Ginga, Suleman Sly, Sophie Hutchinson, Tatiana Santos, Thaís Muniz, Tobi Balogun, Tobi Omoteso, Vithória Escobar, Yves Lorrhan. We have worked with organisations such as St. Patrick’s Festival, Dublin Pride, Friends of the Earth Ireland, Akidwa, Eco-Unesco, Concern Worldwide, Mother Tongues, MASI Movement of Asylum Seeker in Ireland, Just City Collective, The Five Lamps Arts Festival Hub, Noise Music South Dublin, Dublin City Council NEIC, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art.

We believe in the transformative power of dance to unite people and nurture collective spaces to build power and to bring about meaningful social change, and that dancing and the communities it creates are wonderful examples of “power with”.

UCD FESTIVAL 2019

broken fields clonmel arts festival 2023

sabrina ginga in dublin 2023

Zapatistas comrades in europe reunited w/ irish community projects - rialto 2021

all together now festival 2022

School's out music and dance show at cruinniu na nog adamstown w/ noise 2023

The platform is founded and Creatively Directed by socially engaged artist, performer & producer Karen Aguiar, who envisions Go Dance for Change ecologies as a space for individual growth as well as collective action. By using the art form to connect, and to learn about culture & other realities, we are all contributing to the power that grows out of a network of collaboration and care. This type of power (power-with) is built on respect, mutual support, solidarity and empowerment.

Material designed for Breaking Codes at Culture Night 2022 by Leslie Goldfinder

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